Ashoka quotes
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“No society can prosper if it aims at making things easier-instead it should aim at making people stronger.”
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“It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.”
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“Social entrepreneurs don’t want to help. They want to change the world”
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“When an unconquered country is conquered, people are killed... . That the beloved of the Gods finds very pitiful and grievous. ... If anyone does him wrong, it will be forgiven as far as it can be forgiven... . The beloved of the Gods considers that the greatest of all victories is the victory of righteousness.”
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“Let all listen, and be willing to listen to the doctrines professed by others.”
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“May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.”
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“He who does reverence to his own sect, while disparaging the sects of others with intent to enhance the glory of his own sect, by such conduct inflicts the severest injury on his own sect.”
-- Ashoka
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.”
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“Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.”
Source : Alfred Austin (1894). “The Garden that I Love”
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“When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.”
Source : "Alesha Dixon: My Mum Taught Me That Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" by Leigh Purves, www.express.co.uk. August 05, 2013.
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